Swimmer's Daily

  • Tulum, Mexico is home to this massive natural sinkhole.

  • The Burlington community is remembering the swimmer who died in Lake Champlain.

  • Stroke by stroke, Sherri Mason is trying to make her favorite Great Lake, greater. She’s preparing to swim over 12 miles across Lake Erie, from Sturgeon Point to Crystal Beach.

  • More than 50 countries represented, 9 days of competition, over 300 of the world’s best athletes in action and a total of 13 events including Mixed Routines. Get ready for the Diving competitions at #FINABudapest2017!

  • USA Swimming has released the organization’s first-ever Safe Sport Activity Book. The Activity Book was created to share the Safe Sport message with a younger audience. The mission of the USA Swimming Safe Sport Program is to help teams foster a fun, healthy and safe environment for all their members.

    The Safe Sport Activity Book is one of many tools that the organization offers to assist clubs, coaches and volunteers to create a Safe Sport environment at meets, practice and at home. The Activity Book has been added to the Safe Sport Club Toolkit where teams can find tools, resources and model policies to create positive team culture, educate their members and intervene in risky situations.

    Read USA Swimming

     

  • FINA has partnered with Deltatre, the world’s leading sports media technology provider, to launch today FINAtv (finatv.live), a new OTT subscription service featuring exclusive and comprehensive live and on-demand coverage of FINA’s most prestigious events.

    FINAtv premieres with all the action from the FINA World Championships – Budapest 2017. It will be available 24/7 on mobile, tablet (iOS and Android), desktop and TVs via AirPlay and Chromecast.

    “FINAtv will be a gateway for the sport to cultivate a new generation of fans that consume information at all times on all platforms,” said FINA President Dr. Julio Maglione.

    “The service will offer outstanding programming year-round including from our most celebrated events and will be presented in a state-of-the-art platform. The launch of the service represents FINA’s the latest initiative to broaden the global reach of its immensely popular Sport and specifically, the swiftly growing OTT consumer.”

    FINA and Deltatre, a Bruin Sports Capital portfolio company, have formed a wide-ranging, long-term partnership to build and market FINAtv worldwide. As part of the agreement, FINAtv powered by Deltatre’s award-winning Diva video player and Forge CMS. The service will be advertising free and video delivered in HD where available.
    Subscriptions will include a full complement of live and on-demand competitions as well as exclusive interviews, features, analysis, and commentary across FINA sanctioned swimming, diving, high diving, synchronised swimming, open water and water polo events.

    “We are honoured to be selected by FINA to launch this new service which will be a glorious showcase for the Aquatic sports,” said Giampiero Rinaudo, Deltatre CEO.

    “The FINAtv platform was crafted from Deltatre’s decades of leading edge digital innovation and our passion for global sports and will offer a state-of-the-art viewing experience that will excite and entertain lifelong fans and newcomers to the sport.”

    “This is a pivotal time in global sports where innovation will be crucial to achieve sustained growth and cultivate new audiences,” said George Pyne, Bruin Sports Capital CEO. “By launching this service, FINA is at the forefront of the movement to use technology to unlock the full potential of the sport for its fans and partners. We are delighted to work with them in support of this mission.”

    Full information about how to subscribe to FINAtv can be found at www.finatv.live

  • It’s not surprising that an elite military unit like the Navy SEALs is interested in having former athletes joint its ranks. Strength, endurance, mental toughness – really, almost all the skills that make a person a standout on the playing fields are the same traits needed to succeed in the SEALs.

    “It’s a physical job,” said Scott Williams, Public Affairs Officer for Naval Special Warfare Command. “So we need guys who have a competitive spirit and are used to hard work and training.”

    While any athlete interested in joining the SEALS program is encouraged to give it a shot, for several years now the group has identified players from seven specific sports as having a greater chance of making it through the highly rigorous training program, which historically has around a 70 percent dropout rate.

    In 2010, the Navy commissioned a $500,000 Gallup study that found that water polo players, swimmers, triathletes, lacrosse players, boxers, rugby players and wrestlers had the highest chance of making it. Of those, water polo players had the greatest odds and their chances doubled if they played the sport in college.

    Read The San Diego Union-Tribune

    Photo by Marion Doss

  • Swim Smooth Coach Anna-Karin Lundin shows us her beautiful “Swinger” stroke style.
    See the accompany blog post here: http://www.feelforthewater.com/2017/0…